CAN TAXPAYERS GIVE 25% OF INCOME TO GOVERNMENT?(MAIN)

Byline: PHILIP K. RAEDER JR. FEURA BUSH

Just what is this ``flat tax'' thing?

I was watching the Sunday TV political shows recently and witnessed politicians telling viewers that America could be saved and all economic problems resolved it the taxpayers agree to give up 25 percent (or similar percentage) of their income to the government.

Here they came, in their $3,000 suits, $100 haircuts, make-up tans and silvered hair, from inside their castle inside the Beltway, telling me that they will save me if I will give them one quarter of what I …